On Sun, 21 Nov 2010, Greg KH wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 02:23:18AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >
> > what started off as just some nonchalant poking around in kernel
> > data structures has become moderately educational. i had no idea
> > that there is support for *sorting* the nodes of a kernel LL in
> > <linux/list_sort.h>:
> >
> >
> > void list_sort(void *priv, struct list_head *head,
> > int (*cmp)(void *priv, struct list_head *a,
> > struct list_head *b));
> >
> >
> > doesn't seem to be a lot of folks using that:
>
> It's very new. The drm code needed it, so they took it from the xfs
> code and made it common code.
>
> > i wonder how much kernel code manually sorts a linked list, not
> > realizing that there's kernel library support for that.
>
> Hopefully none other, if you find some please feel free to convert
> it to use the core code.
ah, thanks for clearing that up. i may add that to my LKD3 page,
just for the informational value.
rday
p.s. speaking of LKD3, i'm still taking submissions for
fixes/enhancements to the LKD3 book.
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